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Bite Size: The Infinite Crossroads

Venue: 
The Arts Institute, Roland Levinksy Building, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA
Event Date: 
Wednesday, September 30, 2020 - 13:00
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With Dr Alan Butler, University of Plymouth, as part of the Kehinde Wiley exhibition Ship of Fools

“Confined on the ship, from which there is no escape, the madman is delivered to the river with its thousand arms, the sea with its thousand roads, to that great uncertainty external to everything. He is a prisoner in the midst of what is the freest, the openest of routes: bound fast at the infinite crossroads”. Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason .

Young men today are awash in a sea of identities....